100 More Great Leadership : From successful leaders to managers around the world.

100 More Great Leadership : From successful leaders to managers around the world.

If you are a manager in today's business environment, demonstrating that you have leadership skills is essential to success. But what does it take to become an effective and influential business manager and leader? There are no sure-fire ways, but you can take inspiration and advice from variou...

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Main Author: Gifford, Jonathan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Marshall Cavendish, 2013.
Subjects:
Leadership.
Executive ability.
Creative ability in business.
Management.
management.
Creative ability in business
Executive ability
Leadership
Management
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; The ideas; Part 1
  • You and the Team; 1: Abandon failed projects; 2: Ask for discretionary effort; 3: Be accessible; 4: Be consultative; 5: Be generous with little things; 6: Be inspirational; 7: Be tough; 8: Control your anger; 9: Create fun and a little weirdness; 10: Demand clear thinking; 11: Do what you say and own what you do; 12: Enable creativity; 13: Encourage experimentation; 14: Encourage opinion; 15: Engage with people; 16: Get the right people on board; 17: Give the team control; 18: Hold back; 19: Inspire people's basic emotions.
  • 20: Lead by objective21: Let people be themselves; 22: Let people make their own decisions; 23: Listen to dissenting voices; 24: Look after the team; 25: Make loyalty a watchword; 26: Make the team proud; 27: Praise people to success; 28: Recruit to your weaknesses; 29: Share the benefits; 30: Stretch people; 31: Use talent to grow the business; Part 2
  • You and the Organisation; 32: Abandon management; 33: Abandon 'Plan A'; 34: Be prepared to pay the price; 35: Be unpredictable; 36: Create a flatter structure; 37: Create strategic opportunities; 38: Define the organisation's moral character.
  • 39: Develop people40: Embrace surprises; 41: Enable self-organisation; 42: Encourage fast failure; 43: Ingrain the values; 44: Keep management slim; 45: Learn from (other people's) failure; 46: Let the organisation manage itself; 47: Listen to the organisation; 48: Mine the data; 49: Move on; 50: Over-communicate; 51: Remember the heritage; 52: Reward real success; 53: Set your own standards; 54: Think about people issues; 55: Think different; 56: Welcome ideas from every source; Part 3
  • You and the Outside World; 57: Be transparent; 58: Change the world.
  • 59: Define the organisation's higher purpose60: Don't get commoditised; 61: Drive social innovation; 62: Embrace cultural diversity; 63: Encourage collisions; 64: Give something back to your community; 65: Help bring ideas to market; 66: Keep up with technology; 67: Operate responsibly; 68: Operate sustainably; 69: Outsource; 70: Promote your organisation; 71: Recognise cultural differences; 72: Recognise strategic inflection points; 73: Think globally; 74: Welcome competition; Part 4
  • You; 75: Act quickly; 76: Always compete; 77: Avoid 'analysis paralysis'; 78: Be adaptable; 79: Be fearless.
  • 80: Be positive81: Be unreasonably optimistic; 82: Be yourself; 83: Create infectious ideas; 84: Do it your way; 85: Do the planning; 86: Do what you can; 87: Follow your dreams; 88: Get out of the office; 89: Hands on, hands off; 90: Have faith in your own ideas; 91: Just do it; 92: Keep marching; 93: Lead, don't manage; 94: 'Only the paranoid survive'; 95: Persevere; 96: Stretch yourself; 97: Take calculated risks; 98: Take up the challenge; 99: Think the unthinkable; 100: Use common sense; Sources and Further Reading; About the Author.

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